MGM 90th Anniversary
TCM Celebrates the 90th
birthday of the most famous
Hollywood studio of them all--
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, formed
in 1924 with the merger of Metro
Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn
Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions.
MGM and its legendary
roaring lion logo set the standard
for American filmmaking, racking
up numerous Academy Awards®
and nominations over the decades.
In keeping with the studio's boast
of "more stars than there are in
the heavens," our festival features
performers ranging from Jean
Harlow to Julie Christie, John
Barrymore to Cary Grant, Greta
Garbo to Judy Garland, and Clark
Gable to Fred Astaire.
This special programming kicks off at 6 am (ET) on Thursday, April 17, with the 1925 silent version of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and ends, fittingly enough, on April 18 with the 1959 remake Ben- Hur. In between are classics of genres for which MGM was celebrated including all-star entertainments (Dinner at Eight, 1933), comedies (The Thin Man, 1934), dramas (Boys Town, 1938), animal films (Lassie Come Home, 1943), adventures (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935), musicals (Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944), films noir (The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946), thrillers (North by Northwest, 1959), Westerns (How the West Was Won, 1962) and romantic epics (Doctor Zhivago, 1965).
This special programming kicks off at 6 am (ET) on Thursday, April 17, with the 1925 silent version of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and ends, fittingly enough, on April 18 with the 1959 remake Ben- Hur. In between are classics of genres for which MGM was celebrated including all-star entertainments (Dinner at Eight, 1933), comedies (The Thin Man, 1934), dramas (Boys Town, 1938), animal films (Lassie Come Home, 1943), adventures (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935), musicals (Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944), films noir (The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946), thrillers (North by Northwest, 1959), Westerns (How the West Was Won, 1962) and romantic epics (Doctor Zhivago, 1965).
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